Sep 3, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
43 ACT Competitors Prepare for Labor Day Classic
Barre, VT – Multi-time Thunder Road Champion Cris Michaud returned to the winner’s circle in the Aubuchon Hardware Late Model 100 for the third time in 2012 after a high-flying duel with 2012 King of the Road Nick Sweet. Sweet closed out his remarkable championship campaign with a second place finish, and Essex Junction’s Dave Whitcomb rounded out the podium with third.
Jeffersonville’s Joey Becker and Whitcomb set the tone of the race early, which started on lap 17 after a rain delay last Thursday. The pair battled side by side until lap 26 when Becker assumed the point on the inside lane. Not ten laps later, Whitcomb was back in the hunt, swinging to the outside lane and reclaiming the lead on lap 40. While the pair was battling, Michaud, Sweet, and three-time track Champion Phil Scott worked their way through the field to catch the leaders. Michaud found himself in a three-car battle for the lead with Becker and Whitcomb on lap 63, before Becker’s fell to a determined Sweet.
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Sep 2, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, Touring Series News
Austin Theriault Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Report
BARRE, Vt. – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, finished fifth in the ACT Late Model Tour Labor Day Classic 200 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Sunday, September 2. Theriault started 29th in the 30-car field, used pit strategy early in the race to gain track position, and then picked up two spots over the final four laps to finish in the Top-5 for the seventh time in nine ACT races this season. The Brad Keselowski Racing development driver remained the only driver on the ACT Late Model Tour to have finished in the Top-10 in all nine points races, and the AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion has two Top-10s in two races at Thunder Road in 2012.
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Sep 1, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT – American Canadian Tour officials have announced a five-race stretch of events through September and the first week of October boasting over $300,000 in winnings called Fall ACTion. Fall ACTion will be kicked off by the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road on Sunday, September 2, and closed out by the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway on Sunday, October 6.
The 34th Annual Bond Auto Labor Day Classic marks the second to last championship counting race on the American Canadian Tour, and will also post a $45,000 purse for competitors. Just six days after that, Serie ACT Castrol competitors go head-to-head with US ACT Tour competitors in a team-based Showdown at Chaudiere for a $35,000 purse on Saturday, September 8. Teams will then turn to the $81,000 4th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational on the big stage at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22.
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Aug 30, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
More than two dozen teams gear up for Sept. 22 ACT Invitational
LOUDON, N.H. (August 29, 2012) – A picturesque day provided the perfect setting for American-Canadian Tour teams as they turned practice laps at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Wednesday.
More than 25 teams from five New England states and two Canadian provinces spent most of the morning and afternoon gathering as much information as possible for the Bond Auto ACT Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 22 at “The Magic Mile.”
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Aug 28, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Labor Day Classic Kicks off $300,000 Fall Winnings
Barre, VT – The championship battle for the American Canadian Tour’s biggest stars will be in town for a critical points event this Sunday, September 2 at the 34th Annual Bond Auto Labor Day Classic at Barre’s Thunder Road. Point leader Wayne Helliwell, Jr. will have to defend his slim 22-point lead from eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar, hot off his win at Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC last weekend.
With two races remaining for the Championship to be decided, a familiar two-horse battle has re-emerged. Dover, NH’s Helliwell leads Williston, VT’s Hoar by 22 points coming into the Labor Day Classic, a track where Hoar owns 12 victories. The pair has combined for 13 top tens in 16 starts, vaulting them into a championship scrap that is now coming down to the wire.
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Aug 26, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
AT Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
Circuit Riverside Speedway Race Report
SAINT CROIX, Quebec – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, rallied back from deep in the field with handling issues to finish sixth in the ACT Late Model Tour Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside Speedway in Saint Croix, Quebec, on Saturday, August 25. After contact in his qualifying race left the AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion with damage, the crew repaired it and Theriault drove from a 20th-place starting position for his eighth Top-10 finish in as many ACT starts this season. Theriault was in danger of going one lap down before pitting on Lap 114 for fresh tires, after which he made his march through the field and finished the race in a battle for fifth-place.
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